Industrial engineering focuses on improving processes. Industrial engineers analyze and optimize systems such as waiting in line at a theme park, boarding an airplane, helping people at a bank, answering calls at a call center, as well as manufacturing processes such as making airplane parts, car parts, household appliances, food, soda, bottled water, and so on. Industrial engineers will have to take a wide range of support classes such as calculus, physics, chemistry, circuits, and materials engineering. Although the most important support class that an industrial engineer will take is statistics. Statistics is crucial because in the real world processes, such as time it takes to help a customer in line, often can follow some kind of distribution, (which can’t be represented by an equation as easily). Overall industrial engineering is great if you enjoy statistics, working with people, and optimizing profits and time for companies.

What is Industrial Engineering anyway? It sounds so generic and yet somehow very technical. Watch this video and I will give you a basic overview including: what Industrial Engineering is, what tools Industrial Engineers use, the history of the field, the future and whether or not you may like it.

Industrial Engineers design systems to enable people and society to improve productivity, efficiency and effectiveness and the quality of the work environment. The systems that are the subject of Industrial Engineering design are broad and are characterized by a need to integrate both the physical and decision making capabilities of humans, together with all other aspects of the system design.

Applications to this programme must be made via the Central Applications Office (CAO):
Tel: 031 268 4444
Web: http://www.cao.ac.za

BTech Registrations

Only students who have already graduated and received their diploma will be allowed to register for the BTech programme. All students applying for BTech must fill in the Post Grad Application forms. Download Here(All written information in clear and legible block print)

Each of the subjects listed above is only offered once in the designated semester

NOTE: As gazetted in the Government Gazette, Vol. 613, No. 40123, 06 July 2016, the last date for first time entering students enrolling in academic programs that are not aligned with the Higher Education Qualifications Sub-Framework is the 31st December 2019.